Yesterday, I've shared 3 vulgarisation articles about fundamental physic.An...
jeudi 17 décembre 2015 à 16:04« Yesterday, I've shared 3 vulgarisation articles about fundamental physic.
And I'm quite excited. It looks like, finally, they are some breakthrough in the grand unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity. The best of it ? It is wonderful and looks so simple that you start to wonder why we spent so many times on very complex stuffs like the strings theory.
First of all, an article that explains a wonderful theory : quantum entanglement and wormhole would be the same thing.
Mind blow!
http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797
But it makes sense. Wormholes are a theoretical concept never observed. Quantum entanglement is something well observed but never understood.
The second article explains that any electron is indistinguishable from another. This is a very deep concept, not only a surface thing. It means that, potentially, every electron is in fact the same electron. Our space-time would be more like a giant mirror room reflecting the same electron in many positions.
In fact, what we call an electron is not "something", it is more an effect observed.
Of course, this has to be generalised to any particule and you can link that with the previous article.
http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/quantum-mechanics-is-putting-human-identity-on-trial
Then, as a conclusion, Stephen Wolfram offers a wonderful summary : what if space time was a discrete network of… of what ? Of nothing ! But quantum entanglement would be an observation of a link in that network. And any interaction observed would be a similar link.
What is wonderful with this theory is that with only a few rules on that "space-time network", Wolfram can infer general relativity and, what an achievement, the notion of time itself !
He even start to answer the question of why our space-time follows those rules.
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/
Keep in mind that all of this are vulgarisations of theories who are not broadly accepted yet.
But what an exciting time to be alive ! »
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And I'm quite excited. It looks like, finally, they are some breakthrough in the grand unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity. The best of it ? It is wonderful and looks so simple that you start to wonder why we spent so many times on very complex stuffs like the strings theory.
First of all, an article that explains a wonderful theory : quantum entanglement and wormhole would be the same thing.
Mind blow!
http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797
But it makes sense. Wormholes are a theoretical concept never observed. Quantum entanglement is something well observed but never understood.
The second article explains that any electron is indistinguishable from another. This is a very deep concept, not only a surface thing. It means that, potentially, every electron is in fact the same electron. Our space-time would be more like a giant mirror room reflecting the same electron in many positions.
In fact, what we call an electron is not "something", it is more an effect observed.
Of course, this has to be generalised to any particule and you can link that with the previous article.
http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/quantum-mechanics-is-putting-human-identity-on-trial
Then, as a conclusion, Stephen Wolfram offers a wonderful summary : what if space time was a discrete network of… of what ? Of nothing ! But quantum entanglement would be an observation of a link in that network. And any interaction observed would be a similar link.
What is wonderful with this theory is that with only a few rules on that "space-time network", Wolfram can infer general relativity and, what an achievement, the notion of time itself !
He even start to answer the question of why our space-time follows those rules.
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/
Keep in mind that all of this are vulgarisations of theories who are not broadly accepted yet.
But what an exciting time to be alive ! »
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